Kansas University Weekly
Editor-in-Chief:
HILLIARD JOHNSON
Literary Editor:
ETHEL A. HIGKEY.
Associate:
ELEANOR GEHPART.
Society Editor:
DESEHIL SHELLABARGE.
Local Editor
ARTHUR JACKSON.
Associates:
GERTRUDE CHAPMAN. A. H, PARROT,
ARCHIE HOOG. JOHN FRANCIS.
FRANK MCKAY. J. M. LEE.
ALVHA SOUDER. J. O. HALL.
HERRIET GERISINGER. G. C. SEEKS.
R. G. KMINIEN. JOHN KANE.
Managing Editor:
C. E. ROSE.
Associate:
P. S. ELIOTT.
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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, DEC. 11, 1897.
Entered at the lawrence postoffice as second-class mail matter.
Polarism is the name some people give to genuine good nature.
Judge Norton and Captain Mosse carried off the honors at the football banquet.
The college man who always takes himself seriously plays a most stupendous practical joke on society.
The Lawrence World stands by Mosse. It says he "will never live long enough to regret the speech be made at the banquet." Right you are. Brady, and Mosse looks pretty robust, too.
The Southern Illinois Herald contains a full the Thanksgiving day sermon preached by Rev. Charles M, Sharpe, who graduated from Kansas last year. The sermon is very thoughtful and would be recognized at once by those who know him, as Mr. Sharpe's.
Chairman of the financial committee of the athletic association is not an enviable position, especially when there is a debt of eleven hundred dollars to be paid off. And now that the season has closed successfully the WEEKLY suggests as a slight mark of our esteem that Professor Adams be continued on the board for life.
In speaking of the toasts at the football banquet, the Lawrence Journal said fast night that Mosse made "the occasion an opportunity to speak in a derogatory manner of the newspapers." The mistake is a natural one on the part of the Journal. No one else would think of classifying the Lawrence papers as "the newspapers."
The Cloverleaf, a paper, published at Kentucky University, says "that the advocates of football can now hold up to the public in answer to the action of the Georgia's Legislature, that of the Kansas Legislature, which showed its appreciation of the game by appropriating $2,000 for the expense of their State University eleven." This is good argument, if it were only true.
With this issue the WEEKLY begins a new department, that of Correspondence. It is hoped that the department will prove interesting and profitable, and to that end communications are solicited on matters of common interests. Perhaps, in this way the WEEKLY may be a "convocation in itself," bringing students and faculty together in discussions which must result in good to the University.
Miss Josephine Shellabarger, manager of the woman's edition of the WEEKLY has paid over to Manager McKinnie of the football team $50 to be used in purchasing sweaters for the boys. The money is the proceeds of the woman's edition and is a fitting testimonial of the business ability and pluck of the girls and their interest in athletic affairs. And their efforts are appreciated. The football boys have appointed Mr. Walker a committee of one to thank the WEEKLY girls and commend their enterprise.
Miss Maud Miller arrived in Lawrence Tuesday. She will continue her study in the Music department.
Notes from the Fine Arts.
The Christmas concert this year is to be unusually interesting. Miss Bundy, who is teaching in Topeka, will play a Weber Concerto which she studied abroad. Mr. Appy, the cellist, from Kansas City will contribute several numbers to the programme. His reception at Miss Brown's recital last spring, was so enthusiastic that his playing will be anticipated with pleasure. A ladies chorus and the Glee club will be a feature of the concert. The members of the faculty will not take part as they play in the organ concerts which are soon to follow. The girls of the Senior class and Miss Thorpe from the Juniors will be heard in solos and two-piano pieces.
Now that the big ogan is so soon to be a reality, the chorus will begin work on several numbers for the concerts. Only holders of the organ tickets will sing in the chorus, and those who can sing and have tickets, will meet at music hall next Monday night and begin work on the Wagner choruses. As the concerts are for the benefit of the organ fund, it is right that the large chorus can not have complimentary tickets. The organ will not be heard until these concerts.
Charlie Pearce, after a short vacation,
has resumed his study with Prof. Clark.
Miss Josephine Shellabarger has entered the art class of Prof. Clark.
The portrait class at Music hall will have Prof. Clark for a modez, after they have completed the work for which Mrs. Means is posing.
Some of the charcoal drawings left in Snowhall by the art students who were working there, have been defaced by some one, evidently an impressionist. The perpetrator of the deed has not been discovered, but suspicion is not wanting.
An Accident to the Zoospores.
The balcony of the cryptogamaic laboratory where part of the herbarium is kept is the store room of the botanical department. In this elevated place can be found note books belonging to young naturalists who traced the changes of the primordial meesiery and left the evidence behind them, broken apparatus and devices which would puzzle their inventors, flower pots, sawdust and bottles galore.
Because of the nature of things it is unnecessary that there should be an occasional house cleaning. The work is now on and there has been only one accident.
At the desks below this world above some students were industriously working out the life history of the Saprolegnia when a great crash occurred. A large number of tin boxes had fallen from the balcony. When the solemn walls ceased to return the hilarious sound an anxious voice from above was heard to say, "Is anybody hurt?" Laughter gave answer no. The students resumed their watch through the compound microscopes and found the zoospher had all been shaken from their sporangia
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Frank Shellabarger was down from Topea to attend the football banquet.
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Human nature knows no more beautiful adoration than magnanimity nor no quality of more solid and enduring worth. Never does it appear more beautiful than when displayed by a community, and never can it be more reasonably expected than in the dealings between great educational institutions. Let no policy be pursued or proposed that will be or appear to be microcephalous. "We must be friends and not enemies." OLIN TEMPLIN.
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EDITOR WEEKLY—The sentiments expressed in your last number concerning the approaching Kansas-Nebraska debate were the occasion of not a little surprise. It appears that the football authorities at Lincoln, considering themselves aggrieved by something the Kansas football representatives did or did not do, have taken advantage of a technicality and declare that they will have nothing to do with Kansas in the future. Any one is free to judge of the motive and propriety of Nebraska's action, but it is hard to see why Kansas Kansas should retaliate in the manner suggested.
We may assume that there is good ground for holding the debate, that having been decided by those most interested and, it would seem, best qualified to judge. It may also be granted that the action of Nebraska university was intended as a snub. Nevertheless, it is not at all probable that the university, or even a considerable portion of the faculty or student body were represented in that action. While the athletic interests very properly occupy a large place in the modern college, no one will contend that they are paramount to all else, or that athletic officers can represent their institutions in any other respect. Nebraska football snubbing Kansas football is quite different from Nebraska university snubbing Kansas university. I have no doubt that the great body of the members of the university of Nebraska felt chagrin at the action of the athletic committee. But, it is contended the manifesto was signed by a couple of members of the faculty. In reply, let it be asked, upon what ground two members of any faculty, without explicit directions, may speak for the faculty and the college? Certainly no one here would think of such a thing. More than that, it would be possible in some colleges to find instructors less qualified to act safely and sensibly than many students. No action sanctioned by two or even many more members of the faculty can be construed as thereby becoming "official."
CORRESPONDENCE
The University of Nebraska, like other such institutions, is made up mostly of reasonable, fair-minded gentlemen and gentlewomen. They are just now suffering from the influence of a few hot-headed leaders in athletics, and it would be nothing more than common courtesy for us to take no notice of their misfortune. No possible good can come from our permitting ourselves to be "insulted." Nebraska will soon be herself again and all parties will be trying to forget this episode. A standing feud between sister universities would be an unpardonable disgrace and no one with good motives and a clear head can contribute to its growth. Far above any fanciful individual rights and interests stands the fact that they are both great institutions devoted to the same sacred cause of the elevation of society and, as such, are incapable of any conflict of real interests.
N- braaska's Insult.
ON GETTING BETTER Acquainted. TO THE EDITOR OF THE WEEKLY. In the ordinary college with a hundred or two students and a half dozen or so instructors it is possible and easy for every student to know every other student, and for every teacher to know them all. But Kansas University has long since ceased to be a "freshwater college," and, like other universities, the great diversity of interests on the part of the students and teachers and the greater specialization of work, have caused the acquaintanceships and interrelations of the members of the institution to grow not only relatively but absolutely less. In the largest eastern universities one may be a member of the faculty for years and not know by sight norly all of the other members, to say nothing of the students. In my travels through the state I am frequently met with the question 'How is Mr. Smith or Mr. Jones from our town knowing along at the University?' Nine times out of ten I am compelled to answer that I am not intimately acquainted with the young man, and I fear that strict truth would often require me to say that I had never-neard of him before Such answers often cause surprise, and, I must bear the suspicion that I am something of a dullard myself. My chagrin in having to confess that I am not always intimately acquainted with the name, age and pedigree of every one of the 900 odd students was somewhat relieved the past commencement when one of the fair and reverend seniors accosted me by the name of a worthier other member of the faculty whose corporeal outline bears a not greatly exaggerated resemblance to my own. I believe, however, that this general in*
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coherency a long both teachers and students is greater here than it need be. One cannot expect that any great community of interests can ever again be a reality in our University, but I certainly do expect that every member of the graduating classes shall know by sight at least all of the faculty in his own department. It is true that never in his whole course does he have the opportunity of seeing them all together. In the annual show, in which they are arranged on the platform, at least a dozen are conspicuous for their absence, or would be if the students had learned to know them by sight; and the most of the students are not present.
I would not make attendance compulsory. I would not wish to return to kindergarten methods, or even to high school ones. The students here are supposed to be gentlemen and ladies, and, as a general rule, they are, though they are sometimes apt, in abandoning childish pecadilloes to age adult vices too much.
I would like to see the experiment tried of a monthly convocation in which announcements and matters of general interest may be made known. The success and permanence of such would of course depend wholly upon the character of the exercises, but there would be no harm in trying the experiment.
Chapel exercises bring but a small proportion of the students together and a much smaller proportion of the teachers I will humbly confess that I am one of the most reprehensible in this respect. But why is there not sufficient of general interest in the University to bring out at definite intervals practically the whole University? I b-lieve that there is. The students would like to get better acquainted with their teachers. The teachers would like to see occasionally what sort of young men and young women we have in attendance here. There should be there must be much going on in the University that is of common interest to all, and there is scarcely any other way of meeting the whole student and faculty body than by a general assembly. Thanks to the greatly improved students' WEEKLY, of late this need is perhaps not as great as it has been. Still there is need. There is need of better opportunity for the students to communicate with each other; there is equa. need for better opportunity of the teachers to communicate with the student body.
Why not also try the experiment of caps and gowns among the faculty? It has grown to be a general custom in the eastern universities and the custom gives satisfaction. S. W. WILLISTON.
SOCIETY
The daily newspapers with their long lists of divorces can not dispell the charming air castles or the tempting love visions of the girl of sixteen.
Mr. Robert Wells will leave next Monday for his home in Washington, D.C., to complete his law studies. Mr. Wells has been well known in Lawrence for four years, and graduated last June from the law school. He is well known in all political and local circles, and was an enthusiastic Theta Nu Epsilon. In his departure the University loses one of its most prominent and active students.
One of the prettiest parties of the season was given December 3rd by Mr. W. Welsh Cockins, for his cousin, Miss Alice Cockins of Pennsylvania. The Phi Psi chapter house was profusely decorated with chrys-anthemums for the occasion. Miss Cockins wore a Paris green, and Miss Alice Cockins was attired is a striking scarlet
creation. About thirty couples danced and refreshed themselves with coffee and sandwiches, ices and cake, which were served during the evening.
Speaking of puzzles, just glance at the Kansas City World. Last Sunday's issue with its startling front page labeled "Types of Fair Women," caused more than one brow to knit and grow stern. Had not the descriptions been good one never could guessed which of the six possessed the fascinating characteristics of "light hair and brown eyes," or "dark hair and grey eyes," which was "winsome as a Quakerress," or the "representative of a queenly type." On indeed might have erred in confusing "the society editor" with one of the "five beauties."
Dale Hudley Gear will return after the holidays to complete his senior year of law.
The young men of the Alpha Nu chapter of the Beta Theta Pi gave their annual "Turkey Pulling" at the Chapter house Friday evening. At 6:30 a six course dinner was served in the dance hall. The prominent feature of the dinner was the turkey which had been procured by methods known only to the initiated. Those present took away with them as reminders of the occasion souvenir menu cards decorated with the Beta pink and blue and a sketch of the Turkey "before taken." The remainder of the evening was spent in dancing.
She tied a young man's heart within
Marcela man's heart.
A striking blonde, the honored guest at a dinner party the other night, was the object of the following toast:
"Tielg her bonnet under her chin,
May she sometimes maybe do it again."
Speaking of neckties, recalls another occurrence. An out-of-town Theta mailed a tie to a certain young man with the followidg sad verse:
"When this you see
Remember me,
And put it where
Dik to like."
This couple, needless to say, have not spoken since. What's a poor girl to do?
The Juniors had a rolllicking good time at Odd Fellows hall last night. Everyone pronounced his class party a great success.
Before the next cold spell, it is to be urged that all young men fond of sleighing in double cutters, learn the position of the north star or else carry compasses. Why? Because last Saturday night two Sigma Chis lost not only themselves, but two young friends on a stone quay several miles west of the city. So bad was their bewilderment, and so puzzling were the numerous cross-roads, that it was long after 12 when the stand tower appeared in the distance, a dusky sentinel announcing that they were southwest not northwest of town.
The senior class, eighty or ninety strong will give their senior party next Thursday night at Library hall. An enjoyable time is anticipated by the class of '98 who will meet for this reunion before separating for the holidays.
Mr Mathew Smith has already received several invitations to sing at musicals to be given during the holidays.
A slender young woman of west Lawrence, not long ago presented her most devoted admirer with a beautiful neck tie, one that she had bought, cut and made all herself. It was not intended as a test of friendship, but also had the fatal effect, (as usual) of severing their happy relations. The home made necktie was too much—he found it necessary to recruit—and left for Sedgwick county several days before the regular Thanksgiving holidays began.